IMF: ‘Financial Inclusion’ Will Boost Global Economy (As...
The International Monetary Fund warns that global growth is slowing to its lowest rate since the financial crisis. But while it urges financial inclusion, don’t expect the IMF to...
4 Lies Your Economics Professor Will Tell You About Bitcoin
Stop trying to reinvent the monetary wheel with Bitcoin, argues Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and professor emeritus of political economy at Warwick...
Bitcoin Hash Rate exceeds 1 EH/s For the First Time
January 25, 2016 – For the first time Ever, The bitcoin network has exceeded one Exa Hash/s, or approximately 10.8 ZettaFLOPS per second, according to bitcoinwatch.com’s...
Bitcoin in Business: Why don’t most Businesses Accept Digital...
Bitcoin is in a unique place right now, it has the ability to help businesses increase their revenue and decreases transaction fees paid for point-of-sale transactions. Many businesses...
The Art of Forecasting: Augur’s Decentralized Prediction Market
There are many tools available today that can support our curiosity when it comes to gaining insight into past, present, and future events. The discrepancy, however, lies with the...
Wikileaks Is Crowdfunding €100K for Leaked TTIP Information
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has been a major issue among NGOs and activists who claim that the proposed agreement undermines national sovereignty, the...
The Economics of Bitcoin Mining Centralization
Bitcoin mining centralization has been a point of concern in the community for a while now. People are worried that the growing size of mining firms will continue until one of them...
The Economics of Stablecoins
Stablecoins are a new idea that is being advanced by some people in the cryptocurrency community. A stablecoin is a digital currency with a flexible supply. The idea behind such a coin...
